In his first MX1 race, a reward from Yamaha due to the absence of Frossard and Phillipaerts, Paulin achieves a fantastic victory.
At the Italian Motocross Grand Prix, even with the winner of both championships already decided, there were quite a lot surprises. And the good news was for the Yamaha team, supported by Acerbis, as Gautier Paulin got on the MX1 bike and amazed everyone by winning in the first race of the weekend. The French rider already achieved the fastest time in the qualifying, with a good margin over the second. But in the race, he not only set the fastest time of the day, but he crossed the finish line first in front of Xavier Boog (Kawasaki) and Kevin Strijbos (Suzuki), with an advantage of more than eleven and nineteen seconds, respectively.
In the second race, Paulin was not able to repeat the feat, as Cristophe Pourcel (Kawasaki) did not give up and beat the Yamaha rider. Despite that, Paulin made it clear that he has progressed and he is ready to get on the bigger bikes.
Anthony Boissière (Yamaha), also stood out, achieving a fifth and sixth position in the races and finishing the championship in thirteenth position.
Steven Frossard, despite not competing in Fermo, has finished the season as runner-up of the championship.
Over at the MX2 class things did not go so well, as Cristophe Charlier (Yamaha) finished seventeenth in the first race, but was able to recover in the second, as he was eighth.
With this last race of the Motocross World Championship at Fermo, a very competitive championship finishes with Steven Frossard as one of the best riders of the season after achieving a very valuable MX1 subchampionship.